Mexican Culture

MC just recently launched its seventh season, and this episode is all about "The Cheech."

Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 2.

It's on display at the museum through September 11, 2022.

Notes on race, fashion, border towns, collage, creativity, and zoot suits. And more.

Notes on race, fashion, border towns, collage, creativity, and zoot suits. And more.

Museum Confidential: Season 6, Episode 13.

Museum Confidential: Season 6, Episode 13.

"Substantive yet wryly humorous.... Skillfully drawing on primary and secondary sources, the authors show that Stephen F. Austin...fought to protect slavery from Mexican legislators' desire to abolish it, and that the independence movement was focused on preserving Texas's slave-based cotton economy." — Publishers Weekly

"Substantive yet wryly humorous.... Skillfully drawing on primary and secondary sources, the authors show that Stephen F. Austin...fought to protect slavery from Mexican legislators' desire to abolish it, and that the independence movement was focused on preserving Texas's slave-based cotton economy." — Publishers Weekly

(Note: This conversation originally aired earlier this year.) History is one thing; mythology is another. And at times, of course, these two can overlap,…